• Jim Thompson 16 December 2012

    Such nice behavior in Michigan

    There is no place left in America for conservatives. And if there is no place in America for conservatives, there is no place in the rest of the world, either. It is as if being a conservative is some sort of a disease — you are shouted down as being the radical right or worse for simply having a limited government, conservative viewpoint.
  • Jim Thompson 10 December 2012
    What is the point, Mr. President?
    The president is certainly comfortable doing things like the rich do – endless golf, fantastic vacations, running around in the most fabulous passenger plane on earth. So, he can't despise what the rich and wealthy do with their money, otherwise he wouldn't do those things himself – they would be abhorrent to him and his wife.
  • Jim Thompson 3 December 2012
    Is it better to give than to receive?
    Among the many things the federal government has taken from us, the joy of giving may just be the most serious.
  • Jim Thompson 25 November 2012
    The new segregation?
    As a global warming skeptic who will never be in a car pool van or AFV unless forced to do so by the government, it hit me that I now know a little of what discrimination feels like. Today, if you do not bow to the Global Warming/Climate Change/Carbon Footprint gods, you are deemed stupid, ignorant, lazy and unenlightened.
  • Jim Thompson 18 November 2012
    Real reform
    Lobbying should be stopped or severely reduced on all sides. Not just business, but environmentalists, the NRA, Planned Parenthood, unions and on and on. To my knowledge, no other republic on earth has the lobbying machine that exists in Washington. Why is that? Why can't we get rid of it?
  • Jim Thompson 13 November 2012
    Panajachel provides new perspective
    If you think your relatively high station in life is solely due to your own exertions, I suggest you contemplate randomness, and then, have the resolve to spend a week or more in a place like Panajachel. You will get more out of it than you put in and you will come back a different person with a different perspective on life.
  • Jim Thompson 13 November 2012
    Panajachel provides new perspective
    If you think your relatively high station in life is solely due to your own exertions, I suggest you contemplate randomness, and then, have the resolve to spend a week or more in a place like Panajachel. You will get more out of it than you put in and you will come back a different person with a different perspective on life.
  • Jim Thompson 8 November 2012
    After the election: Enjoy or endure?
    In my short lifetime, 62 years, the United States has moved from a place to enjoy living, a fortunate privilege for those of us born here or immigrating here, to a place to be endured.
  • Jim Thompson 4 November 2012
    New Yorkers and global warming
    If my house falls off the back of my lot, you know I will not ask the federal government, or any other government, for help. Such a disaster is the result of my own choices, good or bad.
  • Jim Thompson 29 October 2012
    The really serious issue
    We have one root problem in the developed world – idle hands and minds created by an extraordinarily efficient manufacturing system. (China is not the problem. That is a false target.) This extraordinarily efficient manufacturing system causes a sense of worthlessness and listlessness leading to societal problems.
  • Jim Thompson 22 October 2012
    I can't wait for $10 gasoline!
    This leads to a question and a conclusion. The question is this: are we to infer the economy is much better, now that gas is $4 per gallon? And then the only logical conclusion one can reach from the president’s statement – we should all be cheering for $10 gas, for that will indicate the economy is really booming.
  • Jim Thompson 15 October 2012
    Reasons to be optimistic about the future
    The last and final blow to the progressive liberal agenda occurred on Sept. 13, 2012, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke announced Quantitative Easing III, the plan to purchase $40 billion per month of mortgage backed securities "until there is a real turn in the economy." In other words, indefinitely.
  • Jim Thompson 8 October 2012
    Pessimism: The nature of the ultimate 'no' vote
    The current view of the United States of the future, should the progressive liberals continue to dominate the agenda as they have for many decades, is bleak.
  • Jim Thompson 1 October 2012
    Sandi Patty and Barack Obama
    I want to believe what he says, too, but the actions do not back up the words; just look at his behavior around the United Nations General Assembly meeting recently – and a trip to “The View” to be “eye candy” while the Middle East is going up in flames can be seen as nothing but megalomania.
  • Jim Thompson 25 September 2012
    Who is rich?
    I can solve the budget deficit problem as well as President Obama, the imported energy problem and any little old thing that might be polluting our air from autos with one simple little law: Tax all sports and entertainment expenditures at 200 percent, starting with high school sports.
  • Jim Thompson 18 September 2012
    Echoes of Jimmy Carter
    Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting. He has asked for a meeting with President Obama. The president said he was too busy to meet with him next week in New York (although he does have time to make an appearance on David Letterman).
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